For a young country accustomed to relying upon hydrocarbons exports for almost all of its income, education is at the heart of an ambitious agenda to mature and diversify into a knowledge-based economy by 2025. With this in mind, Saudi Arabia has stepped up investment in the education sector and in the young people who will be expected to...
With a transformation agenda backed by a budget of SR210bn ($56bn) in 2014, the education sector in Saudi Arabia holds significant investment potential for the private sector. The government is seeking partners that can help transform both the physical environment of facilities and improve educational standards across the Kingdom’s school...
After decades of underinvestment, the Peruvian government is now prioritising the health care sector. A reform package passed in 2013 and the allocation of $8.4bn to address the sizeable infrastructure gap in the public system are indicative of the government’s commitment to raising sector standards. A new emphasis on public-private partnerships (PPPs) to boost public...
Government efforts to diversify the economy away from mineral extraction have made education a political priority. Education reform is a central goal for the current administration, which faces the task of improving the quality of education at all levels – not an easy one in light of Peru’s poor performance in recent national and international evaluations. Public...
With Algeria going through a demographic as well as an epidemiologic transition over the past few decades, its disease profile has been changing accordingly. While infectious diseases were the main worry during the first decade of independence, recent years have seen the focus change towards non-communicable diseases. Cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes are now...
Following through on the implementation of its reform plans, Algeria continues to put a strong emphasis on improving provision of education across the country. A decade has passed since the beginning of the educational reform, and authorities are now cementing new practices and aiming to understand which elements need further work. Efforts are now targeted at improving...
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